Multiply interwoven fabric for collars and cuffs



H. J. MOOREL MULTiPkY INTERWOVEN FABRIC FOR COLLARS AND CUFFS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I3, 1921.

1,437,067, Patented Nov. 28, 1922 Patented Nov. 28, W22.

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HAROLD J. MOORE, MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO GEO. 1?. IDE & COMPANY, INC., OF TROY, NEW YORK, A

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MULTIPLY INTERWOVEN FABRIC FOR COLLARS AND CUFFS.

Application filed September 13, 1921. Serial No. 500,277.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I HAROLD J. MOORE, a citizen of thgUnited tates, residing at Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiply Interwoven Fabrics for Collars and Cuffs, of which the following is a specification.

The improved multiply interwoven fabric which forms the subject matter of this a plication is primarily designed for t e manufacture of folding collars and cuffs.

Collars have been made of a multiply'intel-woven fabric,'but such fabrics have not been found satisfactory from all standpoints.

The object of my invention is to provide a multiply interwoven fabric of which 001- lars and cufis can be made, which articles will meet, by reason of the construction of the fabric, all of the requirements of collar manufacturers and the general public.

My invention consists in providing a multiply interwoven fabric from which a collar may be cut in a single piece, so that the collar will have three degrees of stiffness, the stiffer portion of the collar being at the juncture of the fold over top portion and the neck band; that is to say for example merely, the neck band may have three plies, the top of the neck band may have four plies, and the fold over top portion may have two plies, all being interwoven.

In the drawing:

F igure 1 is a top plan view of the fabric embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of F igure 1.

.The reference number 1 designates the neck band and reference number 2, thefold over top portion. Number 3 designates a narrow strip running longitudinally of the fabric at the juncture of the neck band and the fold over top portion.

From the Figure 2 it will be seen that the neck band 1 has a greater number of inter- Woven plies than the fold over top' portion :2 and it will also be seen from this figure that at the juncture of the top portion 2 and the neck hand 1, the fabric has a still greater number of interwoven plies so that the fabric within the zone of the strip 3 is much stiffer than either the neck band or the fold over .top portion] Thus, it will be seen that the neck band is stiffer than the fold over top portion, and that the strip 3 1s stiffer than the neck band.

The number of warp threads necessary to secure these different degrees of stiffness in one piece of multiply interwoven fabric may be left to the Judgment of the weaver 'to secure any predetermined stiffness within the three zones of the fabric.

This fabric may be readily, woven on the machines .now in commercial use, so that no 85 special design of machine is necessary to produce this fabric.

In cutting the collar from a strip of fabr1c similar to that shown in Figure 1, it is only necessary to cut the fabric by means of a die or any other method in vogue in collar factories. After the collar is cut from this similar piece of fabric, the neck band will be stiffer than the fold over top portion, and the fabric in the zone in the strip 3 will be stiffer than the neck band. This stiffer zone 3 cbnstitutes a guide for the proper fold of the finished collar, which ide line is not destroyed in the process 0 washing and wringing the collar.

Cuffs, as will be readily understood, may be made from this fabric.

The stiffened strip 3 imparts to the finished collar amore graceful and regular curve to the top of the collar, thereby elimi- 85 nating all wrinkling or buckling so often seen in the usual soft turn down collar.

collars formed in panels, one panel having a stifier than the other, said bands beingcongreater number of Warp' threads than the I other panel and having a still greater number of Warp threads at its line of juncture with the other panel.

3. A multiply interwoven fabric for soft collars made up of two bands, one being I nected along their longitudinal edges by an integral interwoven portion of greater l0 thiclmess than the stiffer band.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

- HAROLD J. MOORE 

